Reading Time: < 1 minuteCondemned as dangerous and abusive, the kafala labour system not only disregards migrant workers’ rights but depends on exploitation.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMore than 100 prisoners have escaped from a jail near Nigeria’s capital after heavy rain damaged part of the facility where they…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBleary-eyed new parents are deprived of more than two months of sleep in the first year of their child’s life.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA major fire that engulfed a restaurant and hotel in eastern India on Thursday killed at least six people and injured 20, a…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFlooding in Tanzania caused by weeks of heavy rain has killed 155 people and affected more than 200,000 others, the prime minister said…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteReports have it that the Prime Minister of Tanzania, Kassim Majaliwa, has announced the shutdown of five hydroelectric stations in the country,…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen a small number of cases of locally transmitted malaria were found in the United States last year, it was a reminder…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteVenice has become the first city in the world to introduce a payment system for visitors in an experiment aimed at dissuading tourists from…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRoads have turned into rivers in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, as a top official said flooding had “escalated to extreme levels”.  Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Metropolitan Police say they have arrested a man after a 46-year-old Nigerian, Okechukwu Iweha was stabbed to death in Haringey, London. …